I'm about to make you very, very jealous.

But NOT just because Hope named me a Rockin' Girl Blogger. Why thank you, m'dear, you rock too. Did you know Hope once crocheted me a little ponchette dealybop that was on the front of a Rowan magazine (#35 i think) that I really just HAD to HAVE that summer?

So apparently you're supposed to pay this one forward. Duuuuude. How could I possibly choose just five rockin' girls when there are so many? Y'all know who you are. Consider yourself...

OK whenever I type "consider yourself" my mind then keeps going with the song "...part of the family. consider yourself...at home!" Come on, no one else loves Oliver?!?!

OK so anyway, as I may have mentioned, I'M ABOUT TO MAKE YOU VERY JEALOUS. And remember up top how I mentioned Hope having randomly made me something once? Yeah, uh uh, awkward segue, but back to that...

So you may have heard through the vicious knitting grapevine about how I am somehow able to get people to knit stuff for me? Like I say "OH THAT'S SO PRETTY I WISH SOMEONE WOULD MAKE ME ONE" and somehow I have these freaky nutso crazy girls as friends who say things like OK I'LL MAKE IT FOR YOU. No, seriously? SERIOUSLY.

And I mean other people have knit me stuff for, you know, birthday presents, or swaps, (let's see, Alice made me a shawl, and Monica (who also knit me a ram) and Amy have both made me socks, and Claudia and Rachel made me socks but those were in exchanges so they don't really count and Strizzy made me a hat/mitten set in a valentine's swap, man we need to do one of those again, and Mariko's made me TONS of stuff including this awesome dude and Mary made me the dude from the BAD BOOK and I can't even talk about all the shit Ashley made me in our recent swap...)....and Carrie made me anemois for my birthday and Heidi sends me jam and coasters and necklaces and all kinds o' stuff.... AND OH MY GOD EVERYTIME I LOG OFF I THINK OF SOMEONE I FORGOT. IT'S LIKE I'M AT THE OSCARS AND I'M FORGETTING TO THANK MY HUSBAND AND MY DIRECTOR AND THE CAST AND CREW AND AM ONLY THANKING THE BOY I GOT TO MAKE OUT WITH ON SCREEN. Lordie. Bygones. Consider yourself mentioned even if I didn't... OK? OK.

Yeah, I was like ALREADY the luckiest girl in the world.

Well check me out NOW, motherfuckers!!! [as my polish grandmother used to say when she swore in front of me "pardon my french!"]

Handmade (doh!) for me by Melanie, who sadly gave up her blog like forever ago and no matter how I cry will not be convinced to start one up again.

I cry please blog please blog please blog and she ignores me. And then I cry i want a ripple i want a ripple i want a ripple.... And she said "SEND ME THE YARN BITCH AND I'LL MAKE YOU ONE." Yeah? yeah. OK.

AND HERE IT IS. I guess now I'll just have to cry over her lack of blog into my blanket!!!!

OK I'm going to go turn the air conditioner as high as that fucker will go and curl up in my blanket and think lucky thoughts. Maybe tomorrow when I get home from work there'll be a BOY in a BOX, whaddya think?!?!?!

You're right -- I'm jealous. That is soooooo awesome. My grandma used to make ripple afghans all the time when I was a kid. I need to find one and make myself one just like those -- in crazy 70s colors too just like Grandma.

Don't forget to post a pic of your boy.

Posted by: Hope at July 26, 2007 07:19 PM

That seriously is so bad ass. holy shit, I want that blanket. How do you do it, woman? You've got some sort of trickery going on that makes people knit for you...

and also...

It's CLEAR! WE'RE! GOING TO GET ALONG!
love me some Oliver. I did a tap dance to Oom-Pah-
Pah in grade school.

Dude! I can't explain what it is about you that makes people want to knit. It's some sort of knitter's magnetism. When you say, "I wish someone would make it for me", we really get the urge to make it for you. When anyone else says that (not counting my immediate family), I'm like "knit it yourself".

Fabuloso blanket man! My hands are cramping after thinking about all the crochet that went into that for you. Hmmm how bout you send me a box of DB cashmerino and I will make myself one? ha ha. I know that isn't how it works :) But maybe if I pretend I am making it for you I will actually do it! That Melanie is fast!